MONSIEUR IMBERT

MONSIEUR IMBERT
inscribed Souvenir d’amitié/ à M. Imbert, signed JBte Carpeaux, and dated 1873 (lower right)
oil on canvas
15 7/8 by 12 7/8 in.
40.3 by 32.7 cm
Aside from being a leading French sculptor of his time, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was also a prolific portrait painter. The present work has recently been identified as a portrait of Monsieur Imbert, a clerk to Carpeaux’s lawyer, to whom the painting is dedicated as a souvenir of his friendship with the artist.

Provenance

Roger Doublier, Monaco, (by 1944) Sale: Sotheby’s, Monaco, December 8, 1984, lot 407, illustrated (as Portrait de M. Jaubert) Jean-François et Philippe Heim, Paris (by 1987) Wheelock Whitney & Company, New York Private collection, Philadelphia, USA, acquired from the above in 1988

Publications

Exhibitions

Paris, Galerie Heim, Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins et Sculptures du XIXe Siècle, 1986, no. 9 (as Portrait de Monsieur Jaubert)

Exhibited

Literature

Louise Clément-Carpeaux, La Vérité sur l’Oeuvre et la Vie de J.-B. Carpeaux, Paris, 1935, vol. II, pp. 44, 332 Revue du Louvre, 1987, no. 1 (as Portrait de M. Jaubert) Revue du Louvre, 1987, no. 5-6, p. 426 (as Portrait de M. Jaubert) Patrick Ramade, ed., Carpeaux peintre, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux Arts de Valenciennes; Musée du Luxembourg, Paris; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, October 8, 1999 – August 27, 2000, p. 246, no. 278, illustrated